Ropley planning continues
Hi all.
Planning continues for the Ropley shed project. After seemingly looking at every photo of Ropley on the net, I noticed a few changes which were not included in the original plan drawn from Google Earth. The main alteration is the addition of the recently built (then subsequently rebuilt following fire) carriage & wagon shed and the extra line installed. The station loop also appears to have been extended at some point.
So, V2.0 of the plan has now been drawn up and looks something like this:
One thing that did strike me about the plan was that without scenery it does look more like the entry to a mainline station than a preserved branchline! So much for easy trackwork
I've also quickly printed it out full size to see if it would fit into the planned size of the baseboards and guess what, it didn't! It's not far off though so I think an additional foot will need to be added to the board in order to fit everything in. It is possible the C&W shed will need to be shortened a touch which may not be a bad thing other wise it would rather dominate the front right of the scene.
Hopefully baseboard construction can start early next week and a site visit is planned for next weekend to get photos of the sheds & details so work on these can start too.
Cheers all.
Tom.
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